4 Desi Place
4 council reports since March 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Desi Place.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Nuttall Reserve, 217 m to the edge
- Curries Reserve, 455 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Pierogi Joint, 55 m away · Fast food
- Fryers Tuck, 319 m away · Fast food
- BP Truckstop, 360 m away · Petrol stations
- Rocky Auto, 383 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Port Hills Rd near Nuttall Dr, 191 m away · route 8
- Port Hills Rd near Nuttall Dr, 202 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 174 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hillsborough ran about $445 a week, $105 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water General, 3
- Damaged Asset – CCC contractor, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Asset – CCC contractor, 28 Aug 2025 Private leak
Water General, 15 Aug 2025 Water meter appears to be leaking
Water General, 2 Nov 2024 Looks like Water pipes under road leaking..wet patch about one meter into road.. heavy trucks use this all day, so could have potential to b
Water General, 13 Mar 2024 Fire hydrant leaking
Elsewhere on Desi Place
- 9 Desi Place, 3 reports
- 2B Desi Place, 2 reports
- 7 Desi Place, 1 report
- 6 Desi Place, 1 report
- 2 Desi Place, 1 report
- 13 Desi Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Desi Place in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Desi Place, the whole record → · Everything about Hillsborough → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
4 council reports on record since March 2024, most often water general (3), damaged asset – ccc contractor (1).
Hillsborough, Christchurch, on Desi Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Nuttall Reserve, 217 m to its edge.



